HeyJaredDon't Tell Me To Get Over It
On July 8, 2018, my life changed forever. My 94-year-old father—a native of Poland and a survivor of a Nazi labor camp—died peacefully at my childhood home. Despite my denial, I knew it was coming. I was confident I was prepared. I was not. No one truly is.
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There is no doubt that I was in denial. My father had always been a strong and healthy man at every age, and in my eyes he was immortal. A world where he simply no longer existed was incomprehensible to me. Any time I thought of losing him I closed my eyes to reality and pretended he would live forever. In the six years since my father died, I’ve joined grief groups, read amazing books on death, went back to therapy, even became a David Kessler certified Grief Educator. And the one thing I’ve no
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